Associated Press A California condor soars over the hills of Big Sur after being treated for lead poisoning and re-released. Citing risks to birds and to human health, roughly 100 environmental groups formally asked the federal Environmental Protection Agency this week to ban or at le...

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Associated Press A California condor soars over the hills of Big Sur after being treated for lead poisoning and re-released. Citing risks to birds and to human health, roughly 100 environmental groups formally asked the federal Environmental Protection Agency this week to ban or at le...

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The Times is discontinuing the Green blog, which was created to track environmental and energy news and to foster lively discussion of developments in both areas. This change will allow us to direct production resources to other online projects. But we will forge ahead with our aggres...

Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Commuters awaiting a bus in New Delhi during the morning rush hour last month. The thick haze of outdoor air pollution common in India today is the nation’s fifth-largest killer, after high blood pressure, indoor air pollution (mainly from cooking f...

February 20, 2013, 7:29 am Europe’s Rift on Overfishing and Subsidies By DAVID JOLLY Laura Leon for The International Herald Tribune Government inspectors, left, check out a fishing vessel off the Spanish port of Cádiz. Two weeks ago, the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly to re...

SunnyMoney A schoolboy in Zambia’s Chadiza district does his homework with the help of a solar lantern that can provide up to eight hours of light on a single day’s charge. Crowdfunding helped finance a project to distribute lights to people living off the grid there. By visiting Web ...

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Getty Images Protesters outside a federal court building in New Orleans on Monday, the first day of BP’s trial on civil charges arising from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. BP’s internal investigation of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill examined the direct cause of a rig blowout but i...

Tianjin Eco-city A view of the Tianjin eco-city, which is still under construction in northeastern China. TIANJIN, China — Fifty years ago, during a time of food shortages, China’s young socialist government singled out a few farm villages as role models for the nation, saying that th...